happening: 10th october 2015 h. 5 pm

How private relationships can extend over the individual limits without getting lost?

Starting from this question in 2008 I imagine to create Musée de l’OHM, an uncertain subject – nominally a chest of drawers in which to keep a series of objects of affection intended for an individual reception – and to run it as a museum within a public institution. In 2009, after the “christening” action at the neon>campobase gallery, Musée de l’OHM opens the exhibition schedule at the Medieval Museum of Bologna, thanks to a commodatum. Since then within OHM were held numerous exhibitions, and the collection has grown through the donation of many artists. The course of conduct adopted by OHM, articulated by the statute of the homonymous association, has tended to implement the problems generated by it and basically related to the dynamics of socialization of contemporary art. For this same reason, after six years of activity, I decided to donate the work that resulted from all of these processes, to the institution within which they took place. Not as a gesture of “self-giving” either unaware of the inherent contradictions. But just to clarify the fact that the latter are expression of a process which is necessarily public.

Chiara Pergola

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With OpenEnig – title deriving from the “typo” imprinted on the catalog of the Musée de l’OHM – Pergola will be uninstalling Suspense: the egg hanging over the cabinet in waiting for a response to the proposed donation, finally falls within what it represents. The happening will take place on October 10th at 5 pm and will mark the acquisition of Musée de l’OHM within the collection of the Istituzione Bologna Musei.